Laser Scan Data from Chester Cathedral, Chester, Cheshire 2015-2019

This collection comprises raw laser scan data, meshes, and models from scanning conducted at Chester Cathedral. Chester Cathedral was founded as a Benedictine Abbey and became a cathedral at the Reformation. The thirteenth-century vaults of the Chapter House and Lady Chapel were first scanned as a pilot project by Dr Nicholas Webb, Dr Sarah Duffy, Dr James Hillson and JR Peterson on 14th April 2015, with funds from the Paul Mellon Fund, as part of 'Tracing the Past', a research project examining the design and construction of medieval vaults. The scans archived with the ADS were created on 29th April 2019 and also include scans of the 19th-century reconstructed vaults in the south transept and nave.